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AMPTP BREAKS OFF TALKS WITH SAG
Wednesday, May 7 2008
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As expected, the Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers ended their first round of bargaining talks on Tuesday without an agreement. However, although reports had previously described the negotiations as cordial, the latest ones said that they had ended on a bitter note, fueling the belief that the industry would be staggering into another strike in July. Indeed, SAG President Alan Rosenberg told Daily Variety that the guild may ask its members to authorize a strike as early as next week. In a statement, the AMPTP said that SAG's insistence on "unreasonable demands" had been the reason for its decision to discontinue the talks. SAG, it said, had rejected the "fundamental business and labor principles" that the directors', writers' and producers' guilds had already accepted. For its part SAG maintained that it had "modified" its original demands while the AMPTP had refused to budge from its own position. "Our negotiating team is prepared to work around the clock for as long as it takes to get a fair deal. We want to keep the town working," Rosenberg said in a statement. Meanwhile, negotiators for the AMPTP are expected to open negotiations with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists today (Wednesday). SAG reportedly has 120,000 members; AFTRA, 70,000. About 44,000 belong to both unions.
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SAG-AMPTP TALKS TO CONTINUE
Monday, May 5 2008
Raising
hopes
that
some
progress
is
being
made
in
talks
between
members
of
the
Screen
Actors
Guild
and
the
Alliance
of
Motion
Picture
and
Television
Producers
after
all,
the
two
groups
announced
on
Friday
that
they
would
extend
their
negotiations
through
Tuesday.
They
had
been
slated
to
end
on
Friday.
According
to
published
reports,
the
agreement
to
continue
bargaining
talks
came
after
SAG
agreed
to
drop
its
demand
to
double
the
residual
payments
for
DVD
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BOTH SIDES AGREE: NO PROGRESS IN ACTORS' TALKS
Thursday, May 1 2008
In
their
first
public
statements
concerning
their
nearly
three
weeks
of
bargaining
talks
--
they're
due
to
end
on
Friday
--
the
Alliance
of
Motion
Picture
and
Television
Producers
and
the
Screen
Actors
Guild
each
appeared
to
concede
that
they
remain
far
apart
on
reaching
an
agreement.
The
AMPTP
accused
the
union
of
making
unreasonable
demands
including
doubling
DVD
residuals
and
"huge
increases
in
compensation
and
benefits."
The
demands,
the
AMPTP
said,
"would
result
in
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